Thursday, July 31, 2014

Fox Sports announced today that Brady Quinn has joined the network and will serve as a game analyst for their coverage of college football and the NFL. They also announced that Quinn would work with Brando in the college broadcasts and Dick Stockton for NFL games. With this announcement, 6 of the 7 NFL on FOX broadcast teams are known for the 2014 season, though only 3 of the sideline reporters/analysts are currently known. Let's share what we do know.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman reunite as the #1 broadcast team for FOX. They will be joined on the sidelines by Erin Andrews, who moves up from the #4 broadcast team.

Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch move up from the #4 team to the #2 team. They will be joined by Pam Oliver. It is expected that Oliver will move up to the #1 team when Andrews is gone for the baseball League Championship Series and World Series broadcasts. It is also expected that she will act as the second sideline reporter for the Thanksgiving Day game, Wild Card Weekend, and the NFC Championship.

The familiar broadcast team of Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, and Tony Siragusa fall down one spot on the depth chart and will serve as the #3 broadcast team.

Like Albert, Thom Brennaman falls down one spot on the broadcast chart to the #4 broadcast team. He will work with new Fox employee David Diehl. It is expected that Brennaman will move up to the #1 broadcast team to
replace Joe Buck during the League Championship Series and the World
Series.

The #5 broadcast team returns Chris Myers, and he will be joined by Ronde Barber, who moves up from the #6 broadcast team.

Dick Stockton returns as the #6 broadcaster and is joined by Brady Quinn.

It should also be noted that Justin Kutcher has confirmed he will call NFL games this season. What is unknown is will he serve as the play-by-play man for the #7 team or will he act as a replacement for whomever moves up to Brennaman's spot when Brennaman fills in for Buck. We'll post full details when FOX realeses their announce teams later this month, along with the sideline reporters.

It should also be noted that we know Molly McGrath won't return as the #7 sideline reporter as she has been announced as the Fox College Football sideline reporter alongside Gus Johnson and Charles Davis.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Campus Insiders began producing exclusive webcasts for the Patriot League and Mountain West Conference last year. This year they continue those partnerships with 15 exclusive broadcasts. Below is the full schedule.

August 29

8 PM- UTEP at New Mexico

September 6

8 PM- Idaho State at Utah State

September 13

7 PM- Northern Illinois at UNLV

September 20

4 PM- Florida Atlantic at Wyoming

10 PM- Southern Utah at Fresno State

September 27

1 PM- Fordham at Holy Cross

October 4

1 PM- Holy Cross at Colgate

3 PM- Tulsa at Colorado State

October 11

1 PM- Princeton at Colgate

October 25

12:30 PM- Fordham at Lehigh

November 1

1 PM- Colgate at Fordham

November 8

1 PM- Lafayette at Colgate

4 PM- Air Force at UNLV

November 15

1 PM- Georgetown at Fordham

November 22

1 PM- Colgate at Bucknell

Please note this schedule contains only the games that Campus Insiders will produce. The MW Network will still carry all the ROOT and Oceanic games while both the Patriot League Network and the MW Network will carry any school produced games.

ESPN increases their coverage of Little League this year with broadcasts from Little League Softball, the Senior League, and the Junior League. Coverage begins Wednesday with the Softball Southwest Regional Final followed by the Big League Baseball Final. A total of 19 games will be broadcast from Little League Softball, Junior League Softball, Big League Softball, Big League Softball, Junior League Baseball, Big League Baseball, Senior League Baseball, and Intermediate Baseball. These games will be broadcast on ESPN, EPSN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN3, and Longhorn Network. Below is the press release and the broadcast plans from ESPN. Enjoy.

As part of ESPN’s comprehensive coverage of the 2014 Little League World Series,
ESPN networks will combine to carry 19 games from across Little League
Baseball and Softball divisions beginning Wednesday, July 30. The slate
includes championships for Junior League Baseball, Senior League
Baseball, Big League Baseball and Intermediate Baseball as well as a
combination of pool play, semifinals and championships for Little League
Softball, Junior League Softball, Senior League Softball and Big League
Softball.

The championship games will lead into ESPN’s multiplatform coverage of the Little League World Series presented by Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes from Williamsport, Pa, beginning Thursday, August 14. Little League is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. Additional details on Little League World Series regional coverage will be announced later this week.

Commentators:

Several Baseball Tonight commentators will provide play-by-play and analysis for various baseball divisional championship games including:

Adnan Virk and analyst Eric Wedge will team up to call the Big League Baseball Final on Wednesday, July 30, at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN2 from Easley, S.C.;

Analyst Eduardo Perez will join Mark Neely for commentary on the Intermediate Baseball Final on Monday, August 4, at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 from Livermore, Calif.;

Analyst Doug Glanville and Neely will call the Junior League Baseball Final on Saturday, August 16, at 2 p.m. on ESPN3 from Taylor, Mich.;

Analyst Alex Cora and Clay Matvick will provide commentary for the Senior League Baseball Final on Saturday, August 16, at 2 p.m. on ESPNU from Bangor, Maine.

Comprehensive softball coverage will include:

Pam WardandanalystCheri Kempf will
call the Senior League Softball and Big League Softball Semifinals and
Finals beginning Friday, August 8, from Lower Sussex, Del.;

Analyst Michele Smith will team with Cara Capuano and Holly Rowe
for Little League Softball pool play, Semifinals and Finals originating
from Portland, Ore. beginning Monday, August 11; Smith and Capuano will
also provide commentary for the Junior League Softball Final on
Saturday, August 16, at 5 p.m. on ESPNEWS;

Tyler Denning and analyst Megan Willis will call the action for the Softball Southwest Regional Final from Waco, Texas on Wednesday, July 30.

All games on ESPN networks will be available on computers,
smartphones, tablets, Xbox, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku via
WatchESPN.

Beginning this Friday, the Little League World Series is back in action on the networks of ESPN and NESN. No, you are not reading that incorrectly. NESN will carry 6 Little League World Series games leading up to the Region Championship.

6 of the 8 regions will either be televised or streamed. If you are wanting to watch the Mid-Atlantic or Southeast Regions before the semifinals, sorry, but there seems to be no love for them. They will have at least 2 broadcast teams Indianapolis, as the Midwest & Great Lakes Regions will share the same venue but use different fields in that venue. The West & Northwest Regions will use the same venue and the same field, rotating which region plays at a certain time.

All Region Championships and most Semi-finals will be shown on ESPN or ESPN2. Announcing information is listed below the schedule.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Two weeks in a row? Is this some sort of new record? Or is it just a sign that I am truthful when I say I will be doing this regularlly from here on out? The world may never know. As always, announcing assignments will be filled in when they are made available.

About Me

I am a graduate from BYU-Idaho with a communications degree. Currently I work as a freelance reporter for MRT and Texas Redzone Report. I also supply the national radio CFB information to College Pressbox. I use this blog, and a few other things, to keep my resources sharp and to provide quality information I feel others will enjoy.